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Poinsett's flower
1825
Greenville, South Carolina
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Joel Poinsett of Greenville, the first American minister to Mexico, shipped home cuttings of a red winter shrub in 1825, and the poinsettia has owned American Christmas ever since. December 12 is National Poinsettia Day, the date of his death. Mexico remembers him differently, for meddling in its politics energetically enough that his name became a verb for it. The Upstate keeps his name on a bridge, a hotel and a highway.
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